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ZX81 ULA questionRecently, I got a nice bundle of kit comprising of a ZX81, Memotech keyboard, PSU and brand new 16K Sinclair Memory pack. The ZX81 has a ULA with no…
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Best version of SE Basic for use in real 48K machineAs title really. :) I did a search but I'm still confused a bit. :( I've seen a few versions, namely 'SE Basic 0.80a' which has the nice 'bar' abov…
Penalty points or speed awareness course?I got pulled over for speeding (38mph) about a minute from my home. I admit I was speeding and it's against the law etc etc but I wasn't driving dang…
... driving to the road conditions (wide, straight road with no traffic ...ZX-Paintbrush new feature requestI would find a .tile file format very useful, basically like a .btile or .ctile but with the data arranged for normal Speccy attributes So it would …
... than standard 16 x 16 tiles. For example 24 x 16 ...ZX-Art graphics updatesWe are gathering a large collection of in-game graphics on ZX-Art at the moment. The ultimate purpose would be to make an easily browsable online arc…
... of in-game tree sprites/tiles.
Most of functionality ...New Game: The Legend of TraxtorHi all! This is a conversion of a game I submitted to #gbjam 3 (use Game Boy aesthetics to make a game) and my first experience programming for the …
... using the SP1 lib (only tiles), and uses Phaser1 engine for ...RetroCollect VIDEO GAME MARKET 2Its official!... Bigger, Better, More Bargains! [img]http://i1339.photobucket.com/albums/o712/bobpard/vgm/A5-Flyer-700_zps8ce66d6a.png[/img] Video…
... . This event will host a wide range of traders and private ...Creating a linked list in Z80[FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3]I am using a circular buffer to store tiles to be displayed on the screen. Tiles only appear for a set period of time, so when …
... a circular buffer to store tiles to be displayed on ... the screen. Tiles only appear for a set ... the buffer looking for live tiles and displays them when ... only be a few live tiles in it. If I ... can easily add and remove tiles. This got me thinking ...The End?[URL="http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=12912"]The End[/URL] is an interesting arcade game similar to Invaders. But instead of des…
... , thus requiring 4 pre-shifted tiles for each alien, as explained ...28-pin DIL header? (COMMODORE ALERT!)If you are offended by Commodore stuff, look away now... Hi, guys; So today I got a SuperPLA to fix my breadbin C64. It worked! Yay! However, whe…
... 's "pins" are simply a wide-pitch 28 pin DIL header ... just like a turned-pin wide 28-pin DIL socket, only ...New Game:Actually it's a reconstruction of my old BASIC game written back in 1998. It was my personal MIA :) Fortunately i've found old paper sheets with spri…
... old paper sheets with sprites,tiles and levels. And here we ...New Game: Micro INCYet another match-3 game made in a week just to finish my "1 game a month" challenge for 2014. Again Z88DK with SP1 lib and targeting the ZX Spectrum…
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Nothing fancy. Match 3 tiles or more. Time limit. An ... increasing number of tiles must be removed to level ... up. Some tiles are special (x5, time up ...PS1 'paint the planet' gameHi all Trying to remember I game I played on the PS1 (only played a cover-CD demo from a mag but I assume it was a commercial release too) where you…
... the 3D planet, colouring the tiles as you went. There were ... add their colour to the tiles. It may have been competitive ... trying to colour as many tiles as possible).
The ...Biggest baddie in a speccy gameIf you ignore really huge ones where the whole game is set inside a baddie (Dominator, Gutz etc), what is the biggest enemy "sprite" in a Spectrum ga…
... those are just specific background tiles with multiple smaller enemies (=gun ...New Game: Pentacorn Quest[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/mRT37k0.png[/IMG] DOWNLOAD: [url]http://www.mojontwins.com/mojoniaplus/download/file.php?id=5870[/url] All the worlds were …
... to someone, or to press tiles.
[IMG]http://i ...Raycasting (3D Games!) with SpecBAS<div><font face="Arial, Verdana"><span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px; line-height: normal;">Here's one I wrote just recently. I wanted to see …
... do, draw a one-pixel-wide strip that represents the maze ...Grammar-based data compressionI'm working on a game for the 48k Spectrum but want a way to compress a lot of screens into a small space, so I'm looking into data compression. Each…
... . I might switch to larger tiles though. I want to decompress ...Bulldog developer RUBI've had a search but there doesn't seem to be a more advanced way of doing it than typing something in the box up there, so I'll just ask. I'm sure…
... Bulldog developer RUB (Jackle & Wide, Master Chess, Streaker), anyone know ...Inlay QUiz - Tiles, grids things mash up<div><font face="Arial, Verdana"><span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px; line-height: normal;">In the layout style of Rorthron.....</span></font>…
In the layout style of Rorthron.....These snippets are from inlays and advertisements for Spectrum games and utilities.
Some easy, some real stinkers and a couple of WTF?!!
Over to you!Could use some help improving some controls.Back when Dingo was released many people said they had problems controlling it, so I've decided to improve the controls on it, so you no longer need …
... exact "hole" between two scenery tiles.
But what I ... the halfway point between two tiles and steer you to the ... while on a row with tiles on it. Like here;
tiles and the RIGHT code will ...Avviso per gli appassionati di Spectrum italiani - An announcement for all Italian Spectrum fans[b]AVVISO PER GLI APPASSIONATI DI SPECTRUM ITALIANI[/b] Sono stato contattato dal dott. David Levy, uno dei fondatori della Retro Computers Ltd - …
... can reach an audience as wide as possible. I will have ...Subtract 4 from an addressThis is a novice Z80 question really: I'm trying to vertical scroll my back buffer, but I'm not sure of the quickest way to apply an offset and mo…
... scroll is therefore 18 chars wide. My buffer is arranged in ...48k not startingHi team, I have 2 48k's, one works (Issue 4s), one doesn't (Issue 4a). The non-working one appears to start, but not finish the RAM test. The pape…
... red lines (also 1 pixel wide), near the top of the ...So, where exactly can I buy a Harlequin?I've looked far and wide but cannot seem to find where to buy one of the Harlequin based "clones". Even an unpopulated motherboard would be a start.…
I've looked far and wide but cannot seem to find ...Best modern (small) sprites for the Speccy?What are the best game sprites created for the Speccy in the last 15 years? A month ago I released [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/dis…
... 18 pixels high, 24 pixels wide) designed with light color against ...Faulty Issue 1Hi all, thought I'd document my efforts in getting another speccy working. I've never done this before so please bear with me... I recently took a p…
... columns, with some 1-character-wide flashing yellow columns in the ...Curved Large Format 4K Monitors.I just wondered what your opinion was of these large screen curved monitors like this: http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/productID…
... buy a 4k 34" Ultra wide Monitor I go for a ...Spectrum 128Ks, disk interfaces and unique and very rare disk softwareI am a 72 year old ex enthusiast who put all his equipment in the loft 30 years ago which was fully working at the time. From memory I have a couple…
... converted by a few world wide enthusiastic programmers who overwrote the ...New multicolor engine BIFROST*2[img]http://s15.postimg.org/rfue0jb3v/BIFROST2.png[/img] [b]BIFROST*2 ENGINE[/b] is now available! Download it here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh…
... [/b] supports animated multicolor 8x1 tiles in [b]ctile[/b] format ...Apple Has Peaked, what should they do next?So the news in the tech industry is that Apple have now peaked and the sales figures for their iPhone have fallen for the first time since it's relea…
... hard surface,I'm talking tiles from the 1920s) about 3 ...
